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       <h1><strong>Internet 2.0</strong></h1>
       <p class="center"><img src="http://gsteeber.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/internet2_logo1.jpg" alt="internet 2"  width="200px" height="200px"/></p><br/>
       <strong>Overview:</strong>
       <p><a href="http://www.internet2.edu/" target="_blank">Internet 2</a> is a member owned not-for-profit advanced technology consortium comprised of (as of June, 2011) 221 U.S. universities, in cooperation with 45 leading corporations, 66 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning, 35 regional and state research and education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking organizations representing over 50 countries.  The consortium was formed in 1996 for research and education to solve common technology challenges and create solutions that support the goals of the organization.</p>
       <p>They are in the process of deploying their fourth generation of the Internet2 Network which will provide 8.8 Tera-bits of capacity.  There is an initiative called the K20 Initiative to help bring advanced networking technologies right into local libraries, museums, and class rooms.  There are already over 66,000 community anchor institutions (CAIs) already connected.<br/>
         Internet2 Advanced Layer 2 Services allow global partners to share large amounts of data or program the network itself through the use of software-defined networking technologies such as <a href="http://www.openflow.org/" target="_blank">OpenFlow</a>.</p>
        <p>Transforming service models through the use of Internet2 NET+ solutions to support every mission area and function.  Some areas are already being implemented while others are still being imagined, allowing educators and researchers to collaborate in more efficient ways.</p>
       <p>The network itself is 100 Gigabit-per-second network that delivers high-performance services as well as a powerful experimental platform for the development of new applications.  The Internet2 also provides a unique set of capabilities to members for developing new applications and services.</p><br/>

       <strong>How will the Internet2 shape the future?</strong>
        <p>I believe that with access to this network, collaboration between researchers and research institutions across the world would be increased greatly.  This would be achieved partially by not having to wait for data to transfer from one location to another, but also in the form of remote collaboration by essentially working on the same bench through robotic assistance and high definition video for more exacting visions of the environment and the work.</p>
        <p>Not only will researchers be able to perform research together from afar, but imagine a doctor that could perform tele-medicine so that someone in a remote area could “see” the top-most specialists in their fields.</p>
        <p>Outside of the pragmatic advantages of the higher speed access, there are the advantages of being able to send higher resolution video and sound.  So much so that <a href="http://events.internet2.edu/2011/fall-mm/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10002006&event=1148" target="_blank">two musicians were able to perform together while hundreds of miles apart.  </a></p><br/>
        
        <h1><strong>Web 2.0</strong></h1>
        <p class="center"><img src="http://www.paginasweb.pe/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/internet-2.0.gif" alt="web 2.0"  width="450px" height="300px"/></p><br/>
        <p>Although the term “Web 2.0” can be traced back to being first used in 1999, it rose in popularity when in 2004 O’Reilly Media and MediaLive hosted the first Web 2.0 Conference.  There, John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly presented the concept of “web as platform”, meaning that applications would be built to run on the web rather than an individual’s desktop.</p>
        <p>Since O’Reilly was a big player in the introduction of the definition of Web 2.0, here is a link to their definition of “What is Web 2.0” from O’Reilly Media’s website:</p>
        <a href="http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1" target="_blank">http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1</a>
        <p>
            Some core ideas surrounding Web 2.0 are:
            <ul>
                <li>Services, not packaged software</li>
                <li>Architecture of Participation</li>
                <li>Cost-effective scalability</li>
                <li>Remixable data source and data transformations</li>
                <li>Software above the level of a single device</li>
                <li>Harnessing the collective intelligence</li>
            </ul><br/>
            Some examples in action of this are:
            <ul>
                <li>Blogs: participation rather than just publishing</li>
                <li>Rich user experiences</li>
                <li>Wikipedia (allowing everyone to contribute)</li>
                <li>Tagging</li>
                <li>Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc)</li>
                <li>Open Source Software, Languages and Applications (users are treated as co-developers)</li>
                <li>Podcasting</li>
                <li>Google Docs</li>
            </ul><br/>
            In summary, Web 2.0 websites focus on letting the user do more, participate, and build the internet through blogging, social media, etc.  It allows all users to freely contribute and participate. In contrast, Web 1.0 websites primarily focused on users to retrieve information.  
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        <strong>How Web 2.0 will shape the future: </strong>
        <p> I believe Web 2.0 already has been playing a part in shaping the future, by changing the way people communicate.  Many people have expressed and shared their social lives online through sites such as Facebook, Google+, Flickr, blogs, etc.  Photos can be tagged, which then connects to an individual’s “online identity” to the photo, even if they are not a participant in creating the online entry.  Web 2.0 makes the world smaller, more connected, more intimate, and also more dangerous/risky.  Online privacy is difficult to maintain, especially as marketing becomes more and more targeted based on user interaction on various web sites.  Personal information can be used by others for identity theft and job screening.  </p>
        <p> People need to be aware of how they use this connected state. If careful, the Internet and Web 2.0 can be wonderful tools, but if abused, can jeopardize important real-life things such as employ-ability.  As more and more people own connected mobile devices, they also seem to be losing touch with how to interact in a person-to-person way.  I think that we need to be careful in the future to not get so lost in this online interaction that we forget what is “real”.</p>
        <p>On a more positive side, web applications allow people to connect more easily from great distances.  Collaboration through virtual meetings and simultaneous editing of documents will aid in productivity.  It works pretty well now - I imagine that it will continue to become more seamless and easy to use in the future. </p>
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